The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1887-01-20
Generalitjes.


is dead.
Buffalo Bill earned his title by killing 42s0
Butiao>.
The famous Giving skeleton" died recently
at Chicago.
An unprecedented snowfall is reported from
| the Southern States.
Secretary Lama was married last week. to
Mrs. Holt, Macon. Ga.
The Minneapolis mills are working at their
utmost to meet the demand for flour.
Frank f. Cutter. Buffalo cashier, being in
financial trouble, leaped into Niagara Falls.
The socialists of Chicago won the offices in
District Assembly u, knights of Labor.
}. Henry Morris, Jr.. of Woodbridge, y. j..
is in Canada, defaulter to the extent of ST.
600.
Governor Lee of Virginia. is credited with
being the champion checker player OF the
South.
Advices from Mantalay say that the bower
full Burmese chief Hlaoo has submitted to the
British.
The University of Pennsylvania viii enter a
crew in the intercollegiate race at New London
next June.
The Dominion elections are to he held next
month; Sir Charles Tupper is on the way to
take a hand.
There was an increase of 100000 in British
| imports during December, and decrease of
tlo0,00o in exports.
| 1t is predicted that the Canadian Govern
ment will return TO the old custom of licensing
| foreign fishing vessels
! 1t is said that the largest legal fee ever OBJ
nv | lu r
from the Illinois Central railroad
one of the wcathie>t san Francisco women
is Mrs. James L. Fair. The courts gave her
~ $4,000 of her husbands estate.
IN eXplo> ion of natural e;> at youngstown.
Ohio. caused a fire with Il loss of SlOuWO ana
the SUPPOSED loss of Il human life.
The suit of Rev. ". W. Down, against the
sow'loin square Boston. Baptist soricty La,
been decided in favor OF thc Iiaintifi.
Gas used for fuel in Troy. y y. escaped in
To business houses aud Frustrated fourteen
ptr-uil>-cierA-. ~a'e>m'n ana customers.
Mr.. Lucy sweet BARRIER. Of Alfred Centre.
'. .. Nh" went =" the poll aud voted in tli,
late election. ha> h"on arrested for The act.
Dynamiter-. -uppo>clto D, strikers. attempt
- 10 blow ~ -'-riIpn If TIE. cah, road ia >an
franri-"', ami effected considerable damage
"cn'ra Ma>'er Workman Powder, saw. he
hu"~ ~ NO III. Satisfaction anon. the Knight.
II Labor 'rsanizatipn> thrui, ghout the country,
frinn' Louis Napoleon. ,cn ofPrincr Jerome
NaI"lcon lPioh-Pionl. Will. il j. announced.
hni,h hi military e,lucati N in ,hc Italian
army.
he Na.>arhu>eli~ >uprcu.c Court decides
That The Legislature ha> no right tu pro, iic for
li' hNinS % freight char-c- Tor points outside
iAe state.
Jamc- E'iwarl Nowln. a lad eighteen year.
old. ha> confessed L. mur,lprin. thr millman
~hv.c scattered remains were found ia L,Nin.-
ton, Mac.
Thc chinese minister Of foreign affair. ha-
agreed Ia pay s2i.'n, to American mi> ,ionari,,
who suffered losses during the recent riot in
that country.
The experiment of utilizing besgars to
sweep the crossings ami depend upon aims for
compensation j. 10 De tried in Boston for the
hr,i time in America.
Col. Robert lnger>oil i, reported to be aging
very rapidly. His hair has becoma white a.
snow and he walks with anything but his old
vigorous tread.
California paper says that ii. IL. Ban
croits great library. which il has taken him
thirty years to collect, is offered for sale, the
price being S2JO.O00.
The Marchoness of Queen>bury has begun
suit Tor divorce against her husband, the Mar
gus. They have been married twentv-one
years, and have five children.
President McCosh of Princeton College is
raising funds TO erect in the spring an art mu-
scum to cost $4,000. Valuable collections are
ready to be placed in the building.
Bogus butter factories at Pittsburg and ALLIE
gheny, Pa. have been closed, the law prohibit
ihg the manufacture and sale in that State hay
ing been pronounced constitutional.
1t is officially stated that about 400 persons
were burned to death at Madras. India. in the
incendary fire which destroyed the reserved
Enclosure i'll the Peoples Park last week.
Mrs. John S. Ellis, a prominent lady of New |
FORK, has sailed for Paris to be treated by Pas |
teur for the bite of collie, which had been |
bitten by another dog, supposed to be mad.
The wheat harvest in Victoria, Australia, is
100000 bushels, an average of twelve bushels
per acre. The eXpOrtable excess Is 100000 |
tons, or $4,000 tons over that of the precedin" |
year.
At Brockton, Mass, Thursday. John f.
Gross shot his wife Emma and himself twice |
each in the head. The injuries of both are |
thought to prove fatal Jealousy was the |
cause.
ho mccliIs, VI lHc new England HIS |
torcal Genealogical Society was held in Boston,
Wednesday, and Abner G.. Goodell, jr., elected |
president, in the place of the late Hon. NJ. +.
Wilder.
An epidemic of typhoid fever is raging at
Clermont Ferrand, France, $1,000 persons out |
of a population of 10000 having been attacked. |
1t is supposed the epidemic was started by i'm
pure water.
The death of the Marquis de Rows so affected
the mind Of his beautiful widow that she COM
mitted suicide by throwing herself out of a
window Of her apartment in the Faubourg st.
German, in Paris.
A meeting Of American manufacturers of
sewing silk and machine twist in New York
last week decided TO advance the price Of man
ufactured goods 10 per cent. in consequence Of
the increased cost of raw silk.
Counsel on both sides in the threatened con-
tesi over the will Of the late Samuel J. TiIien
assert their complete ignorance of any attempt
or intiinaton to settle the dispute by a COM
promise.
The secretary Of the treasury has appointed
Herbert r. Beecher TO be special agent OF the
lie is the son of Henry Ward Beech
er, and WAS formerly collector Of customs at
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